What is the sky issue? I am watching it on sky + (now tv ap rather than a sky sports subscription but cant imagine that makes much difference) and its fine

7-1, Sammie hat trick, and all of the front 4 to score

Buckley was captain of the 2nd string 11 for much of pre season, surprised me then, even more so tonight

I cant say anything for the commentary teams of any other clubs, and having read your comment, I would never want to 😉 Edit - This isn't a gotcha, but why are you listening to every other clubs commentary rather than Rovers own one if you think our commentary are in the top 3? Genuinely interested 🙂

He was, but he was 21/22 when we had him and much closer to the finished article than Brathwaite (who was 18 when we had him) and Harwood Bellis (who was 19 when we had him)

Think we might have been spoilt by a certain Adam Wharton dictating games in his teens

Yes, I am not a fan of the commentary on Rovers TV. They use tired clichés, do not seem to add any insight, and once had a 20 minute discussion about Jaffa cakes in the middle of a game

Does it work for Carabao cup games though? I thought it was League matches only? Edit - as the previous poster was asking for tonight's game specifically Do agree that a subscription to Rovers TV is great value though, despite the commentary team

Not that young, he is 21 in 2 months. Or has my mind just been warped by Rovers playing numerous teenagers over the past few years?

At a guess, I would say he looked at Transfermarkt and forgot to convert to £s. https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/fc-burnley/transfers/verein/1132 "Only" £31M spent according to that

lol, I forgot all about him, kept saying we needed to drop Szmodics to play Moran centrally

Draught excluder?

That 3 or 4 year deal would include a 50% wage decrease in the event of relegation (standard across the board, as are 100% wage increases for Promotion to the Prem) Which means that if Ipswich were to buy Szmodics and get relegated, his wage in the Championship would be £20-£25K/week, which for a club with parachute payments is not out of reach

lol

Very skillful player who disappears when the going gets tough. Would probably do very well in a team that is flying and suspect he will have a very decent career in the Prem. But he is not the player that you want as a mid/lower end of the table Championship team that needs to dig in to get results. He was ok (not spectacular so don't get too excited) for Rovers in the first half of last season when we were going well, but awful and as such hardy featured once the wheels came off after xmas. So I suppose how good a signing he may be depends on where Stoke should be aiming this season. Just out of interest, is Stokes entire transfer strategy to buy Rovers squad from last season? Ennis, Gally, linked with Travis & Moran 😉 I would have thought Ennis and Gallagher would have been enough of that particular line of thinking?

I think that you are severely underestimating just how much money Premier League teams (including newly promoted ones) pay their players

Norwich no longer have parachute payments https://www.leedsunited.news/transfers/norwich-city-may-have-to-sell-8m-leeds-united-target-as-their-parachute-payments-are-ending/#:~:text=They got their first parachute,at Carrow Road this season.

In the hypothetical world were Rovers can pay anyone £25K/week, I am not sure that work work for anyone, including Szmodics, whilst £25K/week is a lot to Rovers, he can easily get £40-50K/week at Ipswich, and an £8M clause does not offer Rovers the security that they would want for a player given that outlay in wages

U21s & U18s apparently both playing at home this morning.

One of Luton's greatest strengths last time the were in the Championship was having some big bruising centre backs with know how. Last night they had two teenage kids in their back 3 with less than 10 senior appearances between them, and Mengi who is only 22 marshalling them. I gather that they had injury issues in defence, but they did have some slightly older and wiser heads available that would have surely been able to help their younger players. To top it all off, they had another 19 year old making his first senior appearance alongside an injury prone journeyman in central midfield. Given that Luton have Championship knowhow in their squad and on their bench, these were all strange decisions in key positions

https://www.rovers.co.uk/news/2024/august/12/lorenze-returns-to-bamber-bridge/ Mullarkey-Matthews to Bamber Bridge on half season loan

If we take Eustace at face value, then that would not seem to be the case JE on Connor O'Riordan: "It’s about developing Connor in the right way. With Fadz and Danny coming in there’s competition for places. Connor can go away at a really good level with Cambridge and get that game time that he needs to come back and really challenge for a first-team spot here."

Bromsgrove according to Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Rowett

This made me laugh

I am going to be pedantic, and say it will be a left back who can play left centre back (Pickering competition)